Socio-Ecological Panel, 2nd Survey Wave

With a share of 30% in total final energy consumption and around 20% in CO2 emissions, private households in Germany strongly affect the environment. At the same time private households are an important target group for policy interventions to fight climate change. Against this background, numerous policy measures that intend to decrease energy consumption and to support renewable energy technologies have been introduced. These policy measures call for accurate evaluation to avoid expensive redundancies due to overlapping policy instruments.
The evaluation of energy and environmental policy measures requires comprehensive and reliable data. So far such data was unavailable in Germany, especially in the context of private households. Hence, the responsiveness of German households to climate protection policies was unknown.
For this purpose, the Socio-Ecological Panel offers rich information on household’s energy consumption and environmental behavior. The data was gathered in four household surveys conducted in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. The survey waves can be merged using the household ID. The data builds the basis for empirical analyses of households’ adaptation to climate change and the evaluation of environmental and climate policy measures.
This data set comprises the information gathered in the 2013 survey wave.

德国私人家庭的最终能源消费占比达30%，二氧化碳排放量约占总量的20%，对环境具有显著影响。与此同时，私人家庭亦是应对气候变化政策干预的核心目标群体。在此背景下，德国已推出多项旨在降低能源消耗、支持可再生能源技术的政策举措。此类政策亟需开展精准评估，以规避因政策工具重叠产生的高额冗余成本。
能源与环境政策措施的评估离不开全面且可靠的数据支撑。此前德国尚无此类适配私人家庭场景的可用数据，因此德国家庭对气候保护政策的响应程度始终未被探明。
为此，社会生态面板（Socio-Ecological Panel）收录了关于家庭能源消费与环境行为的丰富信息。该数据通过2012、2013、2014及2015年开展的四项家庭调查采集得到，各调查轮次可通过家庭ID实现数据关联合并。本数据集可为家庭适应气候变化的实证分析，以及环境与气候政策措施的评估工作奠定核心基础。
本数据集包含2013年调查轮次采集的全部相关信息。